Adding non-keyboard characters to messages

[33South (Chris)]

In my last post I used the ° character and for what its worth thought Id post how to easily find all those pesky little characters. Once opened you can just copy and paste as need into your messages.

Similar to what pops up in MS Word when you click on Insert, then Symbol.

Click Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/CharacterMap then select Symbol font

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Bewdy Chris. I've wanted to know where to get those special little characters from. Thanks

To ∞ and beyond

[sheeny (Al)]

Thanks for the tip Chris, but why won't it work for me? I am running Firefox will that make a difference?

° degree works OK
¥ infinity doesn't
µ this one's not right either (whatever it's called - infinity sign open on the RHS)


Any further tips?

Al.

[matt]

Thanks Chris.

That's a handy little tip

[Garyh]

Just hold down the Alt key and type in the ascii symbol of your number key pad (windows users) Example: alt>200 gives you ╚ symbol.
Can`t remember but I think it goes all the way to 254.
Give it a go
╔═════════╗
║---HELLO---║
╚═════════╝
cheers

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

[ALT] 0176 gives the ° symbol, but you may have to use the numeric keypad (not the top row above letters) to get that to work, depending.

[joe_smith]

I think they are called oct codes you enter with the numeric pad and ALT key
Here are the extended ones below.

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║ Now you can format your messages. ║
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I remember I had a program that made ASCII fonts out of the codes search the web for ASCII art

             _____ 
      ,----/,--.   `. 
     /    '. `-'     \ 
     | ____ \      '`|_ 
     \'.--._/` _     \ '. 
          /'-|/ \|`\|-`  \ 
         /   /       \   | 
         |  ;    '`  |  .' 
         '. |;;      ;  / 
          \ \ ;     / ,' 
           ;--,   .,--, 
      mx__||=|=|./|=|=||___ 
          `'-'-'  `-'-'` 
  ___________________________ 
          /'/ /  \  \ \ 
         / '.';  ; \ ' \ 
        '-/   | ; | ; \-' 
          \_| |   | |_/ 
            `-'\_/`-'

I use to know these of by heart when I was programming in dos using Quick Basic. oh that brings back memory's the good old days of computing

[Garyh]

Ahha, I tried to find the table but couldn`t lay my hands on it as I dabbled in Qbasic years ago...Thanks Joe, I shall keep a copy of that!!!!
yeah I made a few pics years ago like that..a bit time consuming but fun back then...
cheers

[joe_smith]

Glad to help

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  | |  ___ ___  | |  _ __ | (___  _ __   __ _  ___ ___ 
  | | / __/ _ \ | | | '_ \ \___ \| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \
 _| || (_|  __/_| |_| | | |____) | |_) | (_| | (_|  __/
|_____\___\___|_____|_| |_|_____/| .__/ \__,_|\___\___|
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Text generator here
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

[mickoking]

Fabulous, now I can type PlÖssl properly Thanx Chris

[hookedonsaturn]

Oh this is realy good. 55 years to learn how to spell my name properly and now someone has a program to confuse me